Leica Gallery Vienna is presenting “Echoes of Everyday Syria” by photojournalist Dominic Nahr, who has been reporting from conflict zones around the world for 20 years. The relationship between humans and the environment is marked by conflict and control. In regions divided by governments through borders, maps, and lines drawn in the sand, decisions are made from afar and lived out daily onthe ground – in homes, on streets, in fields, in deserts, and among ruins. “Echoes of Everyday Syria” explores this tension: The work examines the gap

between political decisions and lived reality during the civil war, as well as how control is inscribed in landscapes and environments.

The works on display were created between the winter of 2024 and the spring of 2026. Two days after the fall of the Assad regime, Dominic Nahr embarked on the first of several journeys through Syria, at a time when the country was in a state of collective vacuum. “The photographs document the birth of a new order from the ruins of the dictatorship. A complex mosaic of Sunnis, Shiites, Alawites, Christians, Druze, and Kurds now shares the same space, deeply scarred by old traumas and yet sustained by a fragile longing for peace.

The images capture this search for identity beyond the big headlines,” says the photographer. The exhibition reveals the cracks in the foundation, but above all the faint echoes of a daily life in which the will to carry on and the principle of hope are inextricably intertwined.